But Larry says he was not at peace until he went to a Friday night gathering at a Baptist church up the street about a month after the shooting.

“The preacher’s sermon that night about (a wayward son who returned to the family fold) seemed like it had been written just for me,” Larry recalls. “And it felt like God was calling me through (the preacher) when he touched me on the forehead” and said it was time for Larry to start doing work for the Lord.

By the time Larry came to San Diego in 1982, he’d given up secular deejaying, and hustled at odd jobs to keep himself afloat.

By the time he decided to get into gospel deejaying in 2003, he’d studied the Bible at several seminaries between San Diego and San Francisco. He started a couple of businesses, worked odd jobs and founded and pastored a church for 15 years.

When he hit on the idea to form San Diego Gospel Radio Inc., he knew it was all part of the calling.

Preacherman says he’s been working on a book — an autobiography he calls “On–The–For–Real–Side” — for three years, and he’s determined to finish it someday.

“We can all learn from each other’s stories.” he says. “And I’m a for-real guy. Hopefully someone else might be helped or steered to God by hearing my story.”